Mexborough & Swinton Times April 10, 1936
Brave Show
Many visitors to Conisborough must be reminded of Wordsworth’s poem when all at once a “saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils.” In both the Coronation Park in Conisborough and Memorial Park in Denaby there were magnificent displays, where thousands of the lovely yellow blooms bravely stood up to the vagaries of the weather and thousands more green sheaths gave promise of a galaxy of colour when the tulips, come out later on.
Holiday Crowds.
Judging by reports, something like a record crowd must have visited Conisborough on Good Friday. Two fields containing “all the fun of the fair” attracted thousands of visitors, who laboriously pushed their way through the throng, while the more sedate residents scornfully passed by. Queues of buses were running in lines like trains, conveying visitors in and out, but the only people who profited by the day were the itinerant amusement caterers and the hotel proprietors. The latter deserve a good day now and again to make up for many bad ones, but one deplores the loss of the money taken out of the area. One gathers that the shopkeepers “will feel the draught” as the week progresses.
Highway Matters
The Urban Council are to make up the roadway on the footpath in front of the new premises for the Denaby co-operative Society on Old Road, and are to charge the cost to Old Road improvement. Sufficient work is also to be done to provide access to Dr Bell’s new house. A “halt” sign was erected on Thursday at the bottom of Ellershaw Lane. As the County Chief Constable asked for the sign to be erected as soon as possible, it may be as well if motorists remember that it means exactly what it says. Once again the open Council discussed the making up of Highfield Road, and once again have deferred their decision, this time for a month.
Living “Corpse.”
The story of a “courts” who had a comfortable ride in the back of a lorry, dropped off, noted a signpost, then vanished into the night was learned in Conisborough on Saturday evening.
A Selby motorist first informed the police that he had been stopped by a lorry driver and asked to inform them that the latter had seen a “dead” man by the roadside.
An extensive search proved fruitless, then on Saturday it transpired that not long after the motorist had communicated with the police, the lorry driver pulled up at the Clifton crossroads and asked the way to the police station, mentioning to the pedestrian whom he stopped that he had a “body” in the back of the lorry.
A second or two later, it is learnt, the “body” got up, dropped off the lorry, glanced at the signpost and vanished. He has not been heard of since.